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Arriva is now the principal bus operator for the Pilsen Region. The public transport company has this week started a new 10-year bus contract (worth 270 million euros) in the south west of the Czech Republic. It means that Arriva is now the principal bus operator for the area, which will benefit fro...

Siemens has been awarded a contract for e-bus charging infrastructure in Nuremberg. Bus operator VAG will benefit of Siemens technology for 39 parking spaces in its new innovative depot. Operations at the new VAG premises are set to begin in 2021. So far the public transport company has ordered a ba...

Santiago de Chile has 411 battery-electric buses today in operation within the largest e-bus fleet outside China (…although the brands are the same, as only Chinese-made ZEBs are running in Santiago, and Latin America, so far). The capital city is in the spotlight of a lately released case stu...

Ballard Power Systems announced that it has received follow-on purchase orders for 15 of its 85-kilowatt heavy-duty FCveloCity-HD fuel cell modules from Wrightbus. The Northern Ireland based bus manufacturer was recently re-capitalized by Bamford Bus Company, after having gone into administration la...

PKM will bring to 15 the number of electric buses operating in the Polish city of Katowice. Representatives of local transport operator Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Miejskiej (PKM) in Katowice and Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. signed on Monday a contract for the delivery of five e-buses Solaris Urbin...

The Luxembourgish operator Voyages Vandivinit has received a batch of five battery-electric buses from Volvo. They’ll operate between Mondorf and Remich, in the charming Moselle region, and will be charged through a high-powered Oppcharge infrastructure. The company Voyage Vandivinit is a fami...

Arrival electric bus is on the launching pad. The UK-based startup has today unveiled the pictures and the first information related to its next project, an electrically-powered electric bus. Arrival, that in early 2020 announced it has received 100 million euros investments from Hyundai Motor Group...

Nobina bets again on BYD with two separate deliveries this week totaling 34 electric buses for operations with public transport authorities in Linköping and Halland, in Sweden. Nobina’s total intake of electric bus units from BYD now exceeds 160 units, either in operation or on order, BYD points out...

Utrecht has witness the first days in operation of further 20 Ebusco zero emission buses. With a peculiarity: they are being deployed on regional routes. At the beginning of June, the Dutch company in fact delivered a batch of 20 Ebusco 2.2 to Qbuzz, a subsidiary of Busitalia, in Utrecht. This bring...

Transdev’s ambition is to electrify 100% of its fleet of school buses in Québec by 2025. Its subsidiary Transdev Canada, present in Québec and Ontario, announces that it has decided – as part of its energy transition strategy – to invest nearly €3 million in a fleet of 27 electric ...